News items about Faculty Members
Two Chemistry faculty receive NSF CAREER Awards
Feng (Seymour) Wang has received his CAREER award for his work on “Molecular Dynamics Study of Growth and Dissolution Dynamics of Stable and Meta-Stable Methane Hydrates.” The goal of his research is to gain an atomistic scale understanding of the growth and dissolution processes of methane hydrate, which is an important but little understood part […]
Three New Faculty Join Department of Chemistry
It is with great pleasure that the Department of Chemistry welcomes three new Assistant Professors to our faculty. Professor Doerrer is a synthetic inorganic chemist. She received her Ph.D. in 1996 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, working with Professor Stephen Lippard. She was appointed a NATO Postdoctoral Fellow from 1996 to 1997 in the […]
Professor Dan Dill Honored by Kodak
As evidence of what an accomplished photographer he is, one of Dan Dill’s photographs has been selected by Kodak as their Picture of the Day. A poster version of the photo is shown below. The image appears on the Kodak Home Page, and every few minutes on the Kodak Times Square Gallery in New York […]
Sean Elliott receives 5-year Early Faculty Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation
From BU Today: The National Science Foundation honored CAS assistant professor of chemistry Sean Elliott for his research on biological electron transfer, with the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, a five year grant that will give Elliott the opportunity to further develop a course curriculum that highlights the intersection of chemistry and biology. CAREER […]
Morton Hoffman Honored with Outstanding Professional Achievement Award by Hunter College
Morton Z. Hoffman, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at Boston University, will receive the 2006 Hall of Fame Outstanding Professional Achievement Award from the Alumni Association of his alma mater, Hunter College of the City University of New York. Hoffman, a graduate in the class of June 1955 as a chemistry major, will receive the award […]
CMLD-BU Scientists Awarded National Institutes of Health Grant in Pilot-Scale Libraries for High-Throughput Screening Program
Co-investigators of the Boston University Chemical Methodology and Library Development Center (CMLD-BU) (http://cmld.bu.edu) have been awarded a three-year grant for their joint proposal “Generation of Stereochemically and Structurally Complex Chemical Libraries.” The goal of the work by Professors Porco, and co-Principal Investigators Panek, Schaus, and Snyder, is to generate a number of stereochemically and structurally […]
Prof. Straub Receives $1.5 million National Institutes of Health grant to continue research on the causes of Alzheimer’s disease
College of Arts and Sciences Chemistry Professor John Straub, who won one of BU’s Metcalf Awards for Excellence in Teaching last May, is known as a charismatic lecturer. But he is also internationally recognized for his research, especially in theoretical and computational chemistry. Indeed, Straub recently received a $1.5 million grant from the National Institutes […]
New Catalytic Method Discovered by Schaus and CMLD-BU featured in C&E News
From Chemical & Engineering News (Vol 83, p. 13): The asymmetric construction of monastrol and other dihydropyrimidones has been a challenge for some time. The compounds are generally produced as racemates by the Biginelli reaction, developed in 1893, and single enantiomers are obtained by chiral resolution. Assistant professor of chemistry Scott E. Schaus and coworkers […]
Two New Faculty Join Department of Chemistry
It is with great pleasure that the Department of Chemistry welcomes two new members to its faculty, Professor Pinghua Liu in biochemistry and Professor Feng Wang in theoretical and computational chemistry. Professor Liu received his Ph.D. in 2001 from the University of Minnesota. Most recently, he was a postdoctoral associate in the laboratory of Professor […]
Professor Emeritus Morton Z. Hoffman receives 2005 James Flack Norris Award from the Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society
The Chemistry Department is pleased to congratulate Professor Emeritus Morton Z. Hoffman on his receipt of the 2005 James Flack Norris Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Teaching of Chemistry from the Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society. The Award, the first national award for outstanding achievement in the teaching of chemistry, was established […]